Dr. Stuart Pimm
Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke

 

One the most cited scientists working in the field of conservation biology. He’s also worked with the best minds in the world to share his passion for protecting the Earth’s biodiversity.

Dr. Pimm is author of The World According to Pimm: A Scientist Audits the Earth, “a globe-circling tour of our endangered planet.” Before Duke, Dr. Pimm was professor of conservation biology at the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation at Columbia University in New York. He was the recipient of a Pew Scholarship for Conservation and the Environment (in 1993) and an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship (in 1999).

Dr. Pimm has testified before both the House and Senate Committees on the re-authorization of the Endangered Species Act. He’s also taken a lead role in a major initiative to restore the Florida Everglades. Pimm is the author of more than 150 scientific papers, as well as three books. He is passionate about sharing science with those outside his field, including non-scientists, and has published numerous popular articles and book reviews in such publications as New Scientist, Scientific American, Nature, and Science.

 

The article, Compassionate Conservation, published 2006 in Duke Magazine, provides insight into Dr. Pimm’s perspective, based on what he sees as a “moral responsibility to protect the world’s ‘special places’–those richest in biodiversity and most threatened by human advances.”

Dr. Pimm is also a former member of the National Geographic Committee for Research and Exploration and current writer/expert for National Geographic.